What symptoms did your cat show right before giving birth?

alison wheeldon · Mar 11, 2012

the only thing looking back on Pepsi is she pinched my granddaughters socks, we couldnt find then any where, until we found blood on my hubbys sock draw, pulling the draw out we found all the missing socks and two kittens just born, she was playing with her sisters only half hour before we found the kittens. the only reason we went looking was because my son picked pepsi up and he had blood on his arm.

angela dunn · May 7, 2012

hi my cat is pregnant she has got very large and looks like she has got a football in her belly

she is showing some signs but how long do you think she has left?

* she is following me all over the house

* meowing alot more

*eating alot more

* looking for places to hide where she normally doesnt go

* lying down to strech out

happykitty · May 7, 2012

Aww, I had too many fosters to remember them all well. I do remember that one we had would climb the curtains, even the last week of pregnancy, and we would have to get her down. She was a bit on the hyperactive side. I believe almost all of them had kittens in the middle of the night or in the early morning. Most were very affectionate, licking down there a lot, and sleeping a lot in the days before. The biggest signs IMO is nesting and restlessness. You will see a lot of nesting going on and it can be very satisfying for them to shred newspaper in the box.

emtanner · Jul 14, 2012

Hi My young kitty is expecting kittens anytime but still unsure of what to look for. I read all the posts and it seems it could happen any day now. My kitty has never been affectionate and in the last few days has actually been greeting in my lap wanting me to let her and licking me a lot. I haven't reall noticed a decrease in appetite as of yet but she walks around purring quite a bit. Any ideas?

beachjc · Jul 20, 2012

Hello,

Our young kitty Cinderella is prego. She is a little over a year old. She went into heat about four times and is an inside kitty. But her last heat wave she couldnt stand it and snuck outside for about an hour. I realized at the end of June that she had not went into heat again then we noticed her nipples were enlarged. She went through the more affecionate stage and today she started hissing at our older cat again. Our older cat, Spaz, is fixed, so we know the father is the black cat across street or the other black and white cat who looks just like Cinderella. Cinderella also has gotten more vocal today like the noise she made when in heat. Cant wait for the babies

do you think she will deliver tonight or tomorrow? She got to be at least 5 weeks.

Prego in California

missymotus · Jul 21, 2012

What a shame Cinderella wasn't better confined while in heat, or better yet spayed at the appropriate age. If she's only 5 weeks along she has another 4 weeks to go.

oreocookie · Jul 21, 2012

Grey gave birth two weeks ago and it was a total surprise! I had taken her in from a home that was just allowing her to breed over and over and they could not tell me how far along she was. I had just started to feel the kittens move a week or two before she had them. I never saw any change in behavior, eating habits, or sleeping habits. The only thing I did note the night she gave birth (about 13 hrs before) was that her tummy had become very hard compared to how it had been feeling (kind of mushy). She was VERY friendly, wanting to be with us at all times, but she had been this way since we got her a few weeks before. I woke up Friday morning (two weeks ago) and "surprise" she had had one live and one not formed kitten already. She never made any noise, never let on to anything! Grey never even picked one special place, she just seemed to have them in the first place she came to when she went into labor. Now we have four adorable, healthy kittens and a healthy mom.

beachjc · Jul 21, 2012

Missymotus you are pretty rude and what are you doing in a cat forum for cats giving birth if you believe they should all be spayed?! We wanted our cat to get pregnant, which is why she was not spayed. And she is very well taken care of. Perhaps you misunderstood my post above. Regardless, you should not be in a forum for what symptoms does your cat give if you dont care about cats giving birth and want them all to be spayed. It's America and If I want my cat to have babies then I'll make sure it happens. A cat is an adult at twelve months, out cat was over twelve months old.

For all of the cat lovers out there that are interested, Cinderella gave birth to 4 kittens last night

Two white, one black and another black with white spots. They are adorable

Cinderella is doing great and Spaz is giving her space

orientalslave · Jul 21, 2012

Why do you want your cat to have kittens? Have you seen how many cats and kittens are pts every day in the US? Each of the kittens will take a home that could have gone to a kitten or cat in a shelter. If you want the joy of kittens in the house there are plenty of pregnant cats needing foster homes.

Since this is deliberate part on your part, how come you didn't take the trouble to find out about feline pregnancies - how long they last and so on? There are plenty of online resources you can find via Google or whatever your favourite search engine is.

If you think Missymotus was rude, wait a bit.

As to your cat - she is right about how long left. Cat pregnancies are an average of 65 days from first mating.

They don't all end well either. Make sure you have emergency vet details to hand, and the money to cover a section should she be unlucky.

kushmama89 · Jul 22, 2012

everyone here loves cats. but we all have our opinions on all different topics whether it be spaying, declawing..etc. i can understand both sides. when my dogs bred years ago i was so happy because i wanted my male dog spaz's bloodline to go on. now that im older and i own a pit abd ive become more active in trying to restore their good name and i see all the animals in shelters not to mention i am currently hand feeding a baby kitten that is motherless im all for spaying and neutering. my pit was spayed at 6 months and kitty will be spayed at 2 pounds. as much as we love our animals and we want so badly for them to procreate and have a piece of them it really is taking a toll on shelters the streets. i think you said your cat only had four kittens? thats a fairly small litter right? do you plan on keeping them all? do you already have homes lined up? and even if you have homes lined up whos to say those people wont move or get agfrivated if they have potty problems and they end up outside or in a shelter? or not spayed and making more babies and those babies make babies and so on and so forth. i would LOVE for my pit to have puppies because i love her so much and would love to keep her bloodline going. but is it worth is to keep one puppy of hers? no. its selfish and unjust. i could give my heart and home to another dog that has nothing that is wasting away in a shelter because people cant stop breeding.

i dont think anyone means to sound rude. its just that until you see the reality...surrounded by animals that youbknow are going to die in just a day and knowing that others will fill their places and some will get out and many wont and the cycle will keep going...you wont understand. i fill my facebook with shelters and rescue groups to remind me why i keep my animals fixed and to keep my hopes up that one day i can do more to help. but preventing jusy one litter can do a lot.

cutekittenkat · Jul 22, 2012

I don't think that people are trying to be rude, more or less they want to educate. The reason that people are saying these things is because they are cat lovers and we all hate the harsh reality that thousands and thousands of cats and kittens are killed each day because there just aren't enough homes for them. In a perfect world people who didn't want kittens would spay their cats and then people who wanted kittens like you could have some and easily find homes- but this is not reality. You say it is like asking you why you had a child instead of adopting, but the difference is that children who don't get adopted don't have 48 hours or less to live. As you say, there is a complete freedom of choice here, and no one can stop you from letting your cat have kittens. All we can ask you to please get your girl spayed after this litter. And if you do insist on breeding her please don't let her breed with strays and ferals- they are extremely likely to give her illnesses and diseases.

Her kittens are very cute by the way!

orientalslave · Jul 22, 2012

No, it's not out of line. Loving cats doesn't have to mean letting them breed, and loving cats includes caring about all the cats and kittens that will be killed at shelters almost every day of the year.

I wonder where you adopted your cat from? If they have a spay policy you have broken it. No wonder early neutering is becoming so popular, and so necessary.

If you want to compare cats and humans, imagine a world where thousands of children are killed every year because they don't have a home.

Free speech. Ah yes - it's free for you to say what you want but apparently not for us to make the replies we feel are appropriate.

eb24 · Jul 23, 2012

KushMama89 said:
everyone here loves cats. but we all have our opinions on all different topics whether it be spaying, declawing..etc. i can understand both sides. when my dogs bred years ago i was so happy because i wanted my male dog spaz's bloodline to go on. now that im older and i own a pit abd ive become more active in trying to restore their good name and i see all the animals in shelters not to mention i am currently hand feeding a baby kitten that is motherless im all for spaying and neutering. my pit was spayed at 6 months and kitty will be spayed at 2 pounds. as much as we love our animals and we want so badly for them to procreate and have a piece of them it really is taking a toll on shelters the streets. i think you said your cat only had four kittens? thats a fairly small litter right? do you plan on keeping them all? do you already have homes lined up? and even if you have homes lined up whos to say those people wont move or get agfrivated if they have potty problems and they end up outside or in a shelter? or not spayed and making more babies and those babies make babies and so on and so forth. i would LOVE for my pit to have puppies because i love her so much and would love to keep her bloodline going. but is it worth is to keep one puppy of hers? no. its selfish and unjust. i could give my heart and home to another dog that has nothing that is wasting away in a shelter because people cant stop breeding.
i dont think anyone means to sound rude. its just that until you see the reality...surrounded by animals that youbknow are going to die in just a day and knowing that others will fill their places and some will get out and many wont and the cycle will keep going...you wont understand. i fill my facebook with shelters and rescue groups to remind me why i keep my animals fixed and to keep my hopes up that one day i can do more to help. but preventing jusy one litter can do a lot.

. Very well said Kush. I agree wholeheartedly. Good for you for supporting rescues on other social networking sites!

rosiemac · Jul 23, 2012

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missymotus · Jul 23, 2012

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orientalslave · Jul 23, 2012

Found the pro-spay statement below the rules rather than as one of them, but the stance of this site about neutering is quite clear:

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kushmama89 · Jul 23, 2012

EB24 said:
. Very well said Kush. I agree wholeheartedly. Good for you for supporting rescues on other social networking sites!

i try! =] i would looove to have my own pit bull rescue someday. though that takes some serious cash flow. but a girl can dream. lol my husband already calls me an animal hoarder because i have a dog two fish and now the three week old kitten? i do have a lovs bird and sun conure...but my gram wont give them up. >.

meowy · Sep 23, 2012

my cat gave birth the first time . it was a surpirise to wake up and see tiny things on my carpet. however, nowadays, my cat looks a bit fat and shes always purring and licking me. she has chosen the attic as her hideout and she was going out in the garden alot when she was in heat. does this mean??!!!!

orientalslave · Sep 23, 2012

I expect it means that sadly it means she is pregnant again. Cats can get pregnant very soon after giving birth, and left to their own devices will have 2-3 litters a year.

missymotus · Sep 23, 2012

OrientalSlave said:
I expect it means that sadly it means she is pregnant again.

Agree, poor girl. Don't let her outside until she's been spayed or this will keep repeating

How long ago did she go out? You will be able to spay/abort if she's not too far along

What symptoms did your cat show right before giving birth?

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